Image ID: ARAX

Credit:

by Smith (William M.)

Date:

1865.08

Negative Size:

8 in. x 10 in.

Equipment:

bayonet; cannon; cap box; cartridge box; drum; drumstick; gabion; handspike (wood); Howitzer gun; long gun; Parrott Rifle gun; rammer staff; scabbard; siege carriage; solid shot; sponge staff; sword

Locations & Lines:

District of Columbia; Fort Stevens DC; Washington DC

Military Units:

3rd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery; 3rd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery (Company K); US Army

Sources:

Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: District of Columbia. Detachment of Company K, 3d Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, by guns of Fort Stevens.

The MOLLUS Collection says: Detachment of Co. K, 3rd Mass. Heavy Artillery. Fort Stevens, August, 1865.

Etched onto negative: 159 [crossed out]. No. 692. Guns at Ft Stevens 3d Mass Augt 1865. WMS.

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